Printing-machine.



F. MEISEL.

PRINTING MACHINE.

D DEC. 16,1914

Patented June 29, 1915.

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FRANCIS MEISEL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO MEISEL PRESS &, MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

PRINTING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 29, 1915.

Original application filed August 17, 1910, Serial No. 577,616. Divided and this application filed January 3, 1911, Serial No. 600,382. Renewed December 16, 1914. Serial No. 877,612.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS Mursnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Printing-Machine, of whichthe fol-.

lowing is a specification.

Thisinvention relates to a printing machine and this application is a division of my patent on a printing and numbering machine, filed Aug. 17, 1910, patented August 6, 1912, No. 1,034,637.

The principal objects of the invention are to provide an improved way of, setting up and supporting the mill rolls of paper to be fed into the machine, and an improved combination thereof with feed roll guides, and collating device, and to provide an improved collating device.

The invention also involves improvements in details of construction and combinations of parts as will appear hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a diagrammatic side elevation of a printing machine constructed in accordance with this invention, and Fig. 2 is a plan of a collating device.

In the form of the invention shown inthe drawings the main frame 10 of the machine is connected by links 11 or the likewith a base or stand 12 for a pluralityof sets of brackets 13 adapted to support the paper rolls. This machine being designed particularly for printing a plurality of webs at the same time, these rolls are arranged so that a number of them can be placed on the machine at once to feed the webs through simultaneously. In the present case each of the brackets 13 is of a general triangular shape and is supported on planing spots 130 on the frame and bolted to the frame at the rear so as to extend forwardly therefrom to have a bearing Well forward of the bolts,

therefor. In the present instance four webs a, Z), c, and d, are shown butit will be understood that any other number of webs can be 7 passed through the machine. The webs all pass to a positively driven lower feed roll 20 which extends across themachine and takes in all the webs, and under which they extend and then pass upwardly over a positively driven upper feed roll 22,. From this roll the webs fall and each forms a loop in which is located a light roller 28. This prevents entanglement of the web during its rapid passage through the machine. Each web then passes under and over stationary feed rolls 20, 22 and 27 are similar and the latter are positively driven by a gear 30 operated by mechanism which it is not necs essary to describe in detail as it is well understood in this art. The webs then pass over individual feed rolls 3132 through the printing mechanism which is designated in a general way by the letter P and the details of which will not be described, as any printing mechanism can be employed. The webs then pass to a numbering mechanism N. After the pluralitv of webs have passed through the numbering mechanism they are brought through a collating device to which they pass from between rolls98. The drawings show four webs, each passing to a different roll 100, 101, 102 and 103 located at different points in order to register'with'the proper part of the collating or registering device- The purpose of the collating device as will be understood is to bring'these four or'other number of webs into registration with each other, one over the other, so that when they pass between rolls 104: to be taken to the cutter or other mechanism they will be in perfect registration. For this purpose the frame of the machine is provided with bearings in which are located the journals for the rolls 100, 101, 102 and 103 and on which also are located frames 106, 107 and 108. Under the bottom frame the under 1 colors,

roll 110 without deviation from its course.

The other three webs are intended to be broughtfrom their positions at the side of this web a and carried directly over it so that they issue from the collating device in registration with it.

"The web Z) travels to an intermediate po sition under the roller 101 and is brought out 'from the machine under a roll .111. For this purpose the lower frame 108 is pro vided with two fixed turning bars 114 located at an angle of 45 degrees to the direction ofmotion of the web and parallel with each other. These bars are spaced far enough apart so that" the web Z) enters the collating device over them and over the frame 108, then passes around the outer bar and downunder it soas to take up a direction transverse to the direction. of motion of the web a, then passes around the other bar 114 and out of the collating device directly over the web a to the delivery roll 111. The web 0 which passes under apart than the bars 114. The web d comes in from the roll 103 over the upper frame 106 and its turning bars 116, around which it passes to the delivery roll 113. The turning bars 116 are at an angle of 90 degrees to the other turning bars. It will be understood, of course, that with a greater number of we'bs'pairs of turning bars of o the same character parallel with those described will beprovided, but if the other webs entering the collating device are at a greater distance from the top web their turning bars will simply be a greater distance apart. In all cases the delivery turning bars of all pairs are directly under or over the inner bars of the pairs described. In this way it will be seen that the several webs,'of the same or different are printed while being taken through the machine parallel with each all the details of construction herein shown I I and described, but I IV hat I do claim is 1. The combination with a frame, of a plurality of mill rolls mounted side by side at the end of said frame, a positively driven feed roll-extending across the frame and receiving the webs .from all of said mill rolls, asetoffeedrolls, one for each mill rollfor receiving the several webs from the first named feed roll, and means for feedmg each of said webs separately from the feed rolls and registering them with each other.

2. The combination with a frame, of a plurality of mill rolls'mounted sideby side, a positively driven lower feed. roll eXtending across the frame and receiving the webs from all said mill rolls, an upper feed roll, for receiving the several webs from the first named feed roll, a series of lateral guides for each web, feed rolls beyond said guides forreceiving each of the webs, and

'means for feeding the webs individually from the second set of feed rolls.

3. The combination with a frame, of a plurality of mill rolls mounted side by side at the end of said frame, a positively driven feed roll extending across the frame and receiving the webs from all the said mill rolls,"a set of feed rolls, one for each mill roll, for receiving the several webs from the first named feed rolls, means for'feeding each of said webs separately from said set of feed rolls, and means for bringing the several webs intoregister. 7 y

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

' FRANCIS MEISEL. WVitnesses: I o

CHARLEs H. PIKE, A. E. MEIsEL.

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